Bag holder and filler



D. R. ADKISSON.

BAG HOLDER AND FILLER.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 6, 1888.

' bag-holding frame.

UN TE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DUNCAN R. ADKISSON, OF OORSIUANA, TEXAS.

BAG HOLDEFl AND FILLER.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,759, dated February 6, 1883.

t Application filed October 23, 1882. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUNCAN R. ADKISSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dorsicana, in the county of Navarro and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bag Holders and Fillers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises improvements in devices for holding and filling bags, sacks, and similar packages, whether of paper or other fabric, with mill products, smoking-tobacco, and other goods.

The invention consists of an expansible bag holding and filling funnel composed of a metallic strip'having overlapping edges and provided with attached spring-wires, such funnel being capable of contraction to enter a bag, and of expanding therein for the purpose of holding and filling the bag, as will be fully hereinafter described.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is a view of my improved Fig. 2 represents a modification, and Figs. 3 and 4 are details.

Like letters ofret'erence imlicatecorresponding parts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the letterAdesignates an open-ended cylinder composed of a suitable metallic striphaving movable overlapping ends or edges, as shown. The edges or rim of this tube, band, or cylinder are rolled or folded over and around a metallic wire, a,

which serves to strengthen the tube or cylin-* der and imparts the requisite elasticity thereto. It will be seen that the tube, when thus con: structed, is capable of contraction and expansion to facilitate its entrance into and attachment within the mouth of the bag, sack, or other package to be filled. In order to attach the bag securely to the holder or cylinder A, one end of said cylinder may be provided with books I) b or other suitable devices.

When it is desired to fill a sack, bag, or similar package, the tube or cylinder A will be forcibly compressed with the hands until its diameter is sufiiciently reduced or contracted to enable one end of the device to be inserted into the mouth of the package. By removing the pressure thus exerted upon the cylinder it will expand so as to bear against and withinthe mouth of the bag that is thereby attached thereto either with or without the in tervention of the hooks b or other fiastenings. When the bag and cylinder are thus connected the goods to be packed may be readily posing the tube A may be slotted, as shown at B in Figs. 2 and 4., the opposite or outer overlapping end of the strip being provided on its inner side with a thumb-screw, O, and. nut D, by which the tube when adjusted may be readily held in any required position.

A steel band may be substituted for the spring-wire win the rim or edges of the strip composing the tube.

An expansible tube of the construction herein described affords simple and convenient means of filling bags or similar packages of various sizes with meal, fiour, loose tobacco, grain, and other commodities.

. It is obvious that the tube may be manufactured in various sizes to correspond with varied requirements of use.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a bagfilling funnel composed of an elongated cylinder having overlapping longitudinal edges provided with spring-wires a, said funnel being capable of contraction and expansion, and when inserted in a bag also serving to hold the same, substantially as described.

2. An expansible bag holding and filling funnel composed of a metallic strip having overlapping edges inclosing springwires, substantially as described.

3. ln a bag holding and filling device, the

posed'of a metallic strip having movable over- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set lapping ends, one ot'which is provided with a my hand in the presence of two subscribing IO slot, B,a thumb-screw, O, and nut D, attached witnesses.

to the opposite end of said. strip, a spring- 7 7 wire, a, inserted in the rim of the strip com- 4 DUMMN RODOLPH .ADKISSO) posing the tube, and hooks or i'astenings b b, Witnesses:

attached to the end of the tube, substantially SAML. R. FROST,

as described. WALTON O. WINKLER. 

